Peter Taaffe

Ted Grant Is Always Right!

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I have just read Tony Aitman’s obituary of Ted Grant from 2006. Aitman is a member of Peter Taaffe’s Socialist Party (which made off with the majority of the organisation after the split in Militant between Taaffe and Grant). In the obituary, Aitman is respectful but notes Grant’s many flaws, in particular a tendency to … Read more

Dennis Tourish and the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) as a political cult

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Dennis Tourish, Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies at the University of Sussex, has written at length about cults. Like many cult experts, he was in one – he worked as a full-timer for the Militant Tendency in Northern Ireland in the 1980s. In 1998, he wrote a paper entitled ‘Ideological Intransigence, Democratic Centralism and … Read more